Great Lakes Institute of Management - GLIM

The Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM) provides five courses, and they are the PGPM, PGDM, PGWPM, MBA, and Global Executive Program in Management. The PGPM course happens to be the first one-year course to be acclaimed by AICTE, in India. And, was also approved by the Association of MBAs in the UK, the AMBA. The college has one campus in Chennai and one in Gurgaon, is also known as GLIM. The college is a private business school, founded by Bala V Balachandran in 2004. The institute is an excellent centre for teaching leadership in management. GLIM’s mission is to foster this relationship through innovative learning, a great faculty and complete experience for the students. The curriculum is drafted by experts, is updated and brought to perfection as much as possible. The college render one Karma Yoga program through which, the student reach out to the rural and backward communities and help them through several health, wellness, awareness, donation campaigns and this initiative is such a smashing success, also tied up with several NGO's to take this initiative to more areas than just those immediately surrounding the campus. The college take pride in being a student driven, participative and democratic Institute – with the students having as much authority and responsibility as the management in the affairs of the Institute.

The team at GLIM ensures that the gap is closed between the industry and the students. The team take the help of not only their esteemed faculty but also their alumni, while making the students go through the placement process. It is no wonder that the team always seek to do their best; since the inception, the institution has had a success of 100% when it comes to placements. The cell have a direct network of contact with many of the companies in the industry. The school has many associations, including schools like Yale, Bauer, Georgia State University, Stuart School of Business and so on. Many leading companies take recruits from the institution, and a few out of them are IBM, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Svapas Innovation, Wipro, L & T Infotech Ltd., Accenture, Defiance Technologies and many more.